survival at sea game

This activity was to number on a list of materials that you might find if you were on a ship and it had just sank from least to greatest importance.  although our group did not have much knowlege on the subject we managed to come pretty close to the official rankings by the coast gaurd.  Our biggest downfall was that we thought a star map and a regular map would be the two most important objects. After reading the coast gaurds report we found out that they were actually the least important because you need a lot more materials to actually use it.  The rum which we thought was the least important actually turned out to be very high up on the list also.  Other than those materials we were only off by one or two.  our group worked fairly well together but we did argue about a few things.  I think that official oppinion is better than experimantal because they had much more time to test what the objects could be used for than we did.